"I would rather be killed with you a hundred times than get on without you." "I would take you if I could, Dan; but this is a service that I must do alone.

Good-by, my boy; let us hope that, in three or four days at the outside, I shall be back here again, safe and sound." He wrung Dan's hand, and then started at a canter and kept on at that pace until he reached Richmond.

A train with stores was starting for the south in a few minutes; General Lee's order enabled Vincent to have a horse-box attached at once, and he was soon speeding on his way.

He alighted at Burksville Junction, and there purchased some rough clothes for himself and some country-fashioned saddlery for his horse.

Then, after changing his clothes at an inn and putting the fresh saddlery on his horse, he started.
It was getting late in the afternoon, but he rode on by unfrequented roads, stopping occasionally to inquire if any of the Federal cavalry had been seen in the neighborhood, and at last stopped for the night at a little village inn.